Beamed Sonic Advertising Is Coming

newtley writes in with a story from Ad Age a few days back. "Advertisers are determined to get into your head by one means or another, and Holosonic Research Labs has found yet another way of invading your privacy in the name of forcing you pay attention. You're walking down a street in New York when all of a sudden, a woman's voice whispers 'Who's that? Who's There?' No, you weren't having a psychotic episode; you were being subjected without your permission to 'sound in a narrow beam, just like light.' It was coming at you from a rooftop speaker seven stories up."

Comments

Re:Pandora's box

[Garridan]

...as well as the invasion of your personal space... You realize that you claim that your "personal space" is "invaded" by people making sound at you. If you're on the street and I stand 5 feet away and say, "hey buddy, got the time?" and you punch me in the face - you think that's reasonable behavior?

Re:Pandora's box

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're going to throw the whole thing away and go shoot people, don't go for students and people who eat at MacDonalds like everyone else does. Go after the scumbags behind all this and do us a solid on your way out.

Jesus Christ somebody should call a hotline on you, get you under psychiatric care before you shoot up a mall - an anti-social nerd constantly saying he wants to kill people. From a quick look at your post history:

But I want information to be free, and if you oppose me, I'll kill you.

Liars should be put to death.

Evil manipulative scumbags using public money to help restaurants figure out how to subvert our reason should be shot in the head for it.

The more people around, the farther away I need to roam to get the fuck away from them.

Even if it is a gimmick, you suck, stop posting on Slashdot.